MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) -- A deadline for action regarding a tent encampment on the campus of Columbia University was postponed by 48 hours on Wednesday until 12:01 a.m. Friday. It was an act that seemed to lower tensions, albeit slightly, in and around campus over the war in Gaza. That tension rose again when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other Republican congressional leaders came to campus to condemn the protests.  The Republican congressional delegation, which included at least two local members of Congress, Nicole Malliotakis and Mike Lawler, was booed by peopl ..read more

NEW YORK (PIX11) -- Surgeons at NYU are changing the game of modern medicine. On Wednesday, they performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery ..read more

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) -- The Intrepid Museum is offering free movie nights this summer against the stunning backdrop of a New York City sunset. The free summer series will kick off during Memorial Day weekend on May 24, with the screening of "Top Gun: Maverick." Doors open at 7 p.m., and the movie will begin at sunset. Attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, picnic baskets, and blankets to watch on a huge inflatable screen. All the movies featured in the four-week series feature stories about "humankind’s exploration and fascination with the Moon." During the museum's free Friday ..read more

SOHO, Manhattan (PIX11) --- A parolee is accused of violently choking and raping a woman after following her into her Manhattan apartment building early Sunday, police said. Ellow Williams, 30, hid behind a parked car and followed the 23-year-old woman into her SoHo building after she got out of a cab at around 4:10 a.m., according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. “She enters the apartment with her key fob into the lobby. While the door is still open, the perp runs in behind,” Kenny said during a press briefing Tuesday ..read more

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) – A man was stabbed multiple times during a road rage incident on the Upper East Side on Tuesday, according to sources. The stabbing happened on East 62nd Street and Lexington Avenue around 7 p.m., police said. The 28-year-old victim was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, according to authorities ..read more

HELL'S KITCHEN, Manhattan (PIX11) – Police are searching for a dog walker accused of slashing a man in Hell's Kitchen on Monday, according to the NYPD. A 56-year-old man was walking on West 54th Street around 1:22 p.m. when he came across a man in his 50s, who was walking a small black dog, police said. The two got into an argument, and the dog walker allegedly said "I'm going to cut you in half," according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. The suspect then slashed the man with an unknown object in his stomach, according to authorities ..read more

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The ongoing Israel-Hamas war has sparked protests at universities around the city, with tensions escalating as demonstrators voice their support for Palestine. Protests continued at Washington Square Park Tuesday, where dozens of NYU students and pro-Palestinian protesters staged a walkout, showing their solidarity for Gaza as the war in the Middle East intensifies. As PIX11 crews attempted to speak with demonstrators, organizers instructed them not to engage with the press or police ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran tabloid publisher testified Tuesday that he pledged to be Donald Trump's “eyes and ears" during his 2016 presidential campaign, recounting how he promised the then-candidate that he would help suppress harmful stories and even arranged to purchase the silence of a doorman. The testimony from David Pecker was designed to bolster the prosecution's premise of a decades-long friendship between Trump and the former publisher of the National Enquirer that culminated in an agreement to give the candidate's lawyer a heads-up on negative tips and stories so they could be quash ..read more

NEW YORK (PIX11)-- A few subway stations are getting much-needed upgrades, repairs and deep cleanings as part of the city's “Re-NEW-vation” program, the MTA announced Tuesday.  During the first three months of 2024, the MTA completed upgrades at 13 subway stations throughout the city. Now 13 additional subway stations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx have been selected for the next phase of NYCT’s Re-NEW-vation Program ..read more

CHELSEA, Manhattan (PIX11) --- A man accused of punching a woman in the face on a Manhattan street is the latest bust in a string of unprovoked attacks going viral on social media, police said. Daquan Armstea, 31, of the Bronx, allegedly assaulted the 23-year-old woman near 541 Sixth Ave. in Chelsea at around 10 a.m. on March 20, accoridng to the NYPD. The woman was punched in the face and taken to the hospital with a nose injury, police said. Armstea allegedly ran off after the attack before he was recently apprehended, police said. There have been 95 unprovoked attacks this year, and 50 of t ..read more